I'm trying to use Boris Title Studio for the text, since it has the extrusion that I'm looking for. However, there is now way to use a video as an environment map, nor can I find a way to even use an image. Is there another way to get 3D text that reflects the environment? Hitfilm's extrusion can't go long enough...

@ZachAlan_Productions"However, there is now way to use a video as an environment map, nor can I find a way to even use an image. Is there another way to get 3D text that reflects the environment?"

In Boris Title Studio you can use the reflection material property. Title Studio can accept an image file, like jpeg/tif/png, and will do a 3D map of that. The Boris 3D Extruded text effect requires you to create a DirectX cube file which I have never done. Title Studio is much more friendly in this regard.

In Title Studio you can create an environment map track. The option is in the render tab. It probably applies to all other tracks within the container, above below or whatever. I'm not sure as I have not actually tried to use it.

Here is a screenshot of me using a simple texture for an environment map to get a gold metallic glinty look in Title Studio using the reflection material property.

It's almost done! (Or maybe already done?) Here is the latest version of my recreation of the 9th/10th Doctor's title sequences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEckkPZmIJgIf you have any suggestions for improvement, let me know!

It is a fun project I did with some friends. As you can see in the credits, I did all the camera work, audio, writing, directing and post-production. It is my first video with my DSLR camera and other equipment and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

There are always things that I see that could be changed or improved, but what do you think? Any feedback is welcome for future videos.

@ZachAlan_Productions Is that the lightning effect that was suggested a while back by someone for the web? It turned out really nice. Also, your tracking of the motion of the remote with the lightning/web effect was well done.

I really like this sort of humour. The web effect looked good. Not sure what standards you're setting for yourself but a fun, well executed, well lit, well filmed video with a good script. In short.... it's really good.

@tddavis yes that was the lightning effect. Also, the tracking was done manually and not with the tracker.

@tonyg Glad you enjoyed it! I am very happy with it as well, just some directing/ writing things I could have done a bit better to make some parts more clear in my opinion, but everyone seems to enjoy it so far so that's good!

@jsbarrett glad you like it! This is my first time really editing a video in Hitfilm, so any feedback is welcome! Do you mind letting me know what errors stood out so I can avoid them in future videos? Thanks!

Title VFX looked good--especially the titles and "Marvel-style" logo. The Web track was really solid with the only critiques there being that the web was a little too bright (TIP: Spidey's webs are pretty white, but not pure white--if you'd sampled a color for the webs from, say the highlight areas of that white table leg in the background, you'll get a perfect match for a white object in the lighting of the scene!). And... maybe the motion blur effect? But a really solid track, and the spread of the filaments hitting the remote really looked good. You had just enough wiggle in the lightning too give it the right look.

Only other real critique is Ryan caused you some continuity errors. So in shot A, he'd be gesturing with his left hand, you'd cut to B, and he'd be gesturing with the right. I'm sure you agonized over those cuts, hoping no-one would notice. Nope. I noticed. ;-) When you're shooting fast with a couple of friends this kind of thing is easy to miss in the moment (In my "Ghostbuster's Go!" short I have a phone that jumps hands a couple of times). On a full set, this is where your "script supervisor" comes in--the essential person on set who is there to try to make certain everything matches from shot to shot. It's a thankless job, as it's only pointed out when it fails to catch something (and a lot of the time it's something scripty pointed out, and the director decided not to worry about).

@Triem23 Also nice tip with sampling the colors. Never thought of doing that.... I actually had the web, Spider-Man logo, and Marvel intro all in the works as random projects before this one. This was a fun way to use them all up

0:20 - The ambient noise changes when you cut to view the remote. Keeping ambient sound consistent between cuts is perhaps more of an advanced editing technique, but it's a worthy goal that'll make your work more professional. This is where headphones come in handy (and is how I noticed the issue).

0:50 - When Malcolm stands, the camera doesn't track him well. With someone so close to camera, it's tough to keep them in frame during such a rapid move. One alternative would be to have the camera back up a bit while Malcom is standing, instead of just tilting it in place. Another that could be done in editing is to leave the shot on Ryan as he's finishing his rant, overlap the beginning of Malcom's "Are you serious" audio at the end of that shot (i.e. a J-cut), then cut to him mid-line as he stands into frame.

1:04 - Similar to 0:20, the audio level noticeably changes across the cut after Malcom's "Ow" line. The audio from that straight-on shot should continue across the cut, then blend into the audio of the angle shot. This is an L-cut.

1:17 - This cut has some other character audio trailing off at the head of the new shot. An L-cut would fix this as well.

And even knowing how it ends, I still laughed again at the title gag. Excellent line delivery and editing timing.

I thought it was all excellent, the lightning web looked great, I liked the joke at the end; but was expecting something that didn't even have "Spider" "Man" or "Boy" in it, for copyright reasons, like "Super-Arachnid-Dude"

To add some more very minor notes, it wasn't obvious that Malcolm had walked past the remote, or even how far away it was. He sat down almost immediately he was asked to get it - Ryan was looking up at him, not across the room- which undermined Ryan's complaint that he'd walked past it and it was (presumably) far away. You could have had a shot of it where you did one of those "Chief Brody seeing Jaws" "Zoom in while moving backwards" shots to make it seem miles away.

I'd also have gone with more like "5 minutes later" rather than "2 hours later", especially as all the other "2 hours later"s people use seem to have a comic page with the text on it and someone saying it in a french accent. No idea where that meme comes from, but seen it on quite a few 'build projects'. (Edit: It's from SpongeBob... )

Anyway...point is, no one stands and argues for 2 hours about a remote. To make the point about them wasting time arguing they could have easily used to fetch the remote: 5 minutes is more than enough. It also didn't really transition from that text to them sitting down in a meaningful way. Maybe some really obvious cartoon Black Eyes drawn on each of them? Which they then wiped off with a towel?